ALLENTOWN, Pa. – An altercation between students at an Allentown middle school led to a man allegedly assaulting the school’s acting principal, hitting him in the head several times.<\/p>\n
According to a statement released from Allentown School District, on Thursday, June 4, staff responded to a student altercation following dismissal at Harrison Morton Middle School.<\/p>\n
The criminal complaint states that 22-year old Dyhmir White-Brown, who was not authorized to be on school property, assaulted the acting school principal.<\/p>\n
According to court records, The school resource officer says that he was called for assistance at the front of the school on 2nd Street around 2:35 p.m. Upon arrival, he says staff pointed towards White-Brown stating, \u201cHe hit the principal.\u201d<\/p>\n
Court records indicate White-Brown and members of his family went to the school in response to a family member, who’s a student at the school, allegedly being harassed by a boy in the school. After White-Brown arrived at the school, there was an altercation between two juveniles.<\/p>\n
A woman said the principal was separating the two juveniles when White-Brown allegedly hit the principal. According to court documents, school surveillance video showed the principal keeping the two juveniles separated, when White-Brown struck the rear of the principal’s head at least four times.<\/p>\n
Jose Miguel, who works at the barbershop across the street, saw the fight.<\/p>\n
“They got into an argument and then just started throwing punches, hitting each other. After that, security came and broke it up,” said Miguel.<\/p>\n
According to court records, the victim is acting school Principal Arcelius Brickhouse, who was hired before the \u201824-\u201925 school year to be the district’s Executive Director of Instructional Leadership.<\/p>\n
“He’s a cool guy. I’ve seen him a couple of times,” said Jason Silva, the parent of a Harrison Morton student. “I always say hi to him so for something like that to happen is crazy.”<\/p>\n
Shawn New has a friend who is a 5th grade teacher in the school.<\/p>\n
“She was terrified,” said New. “She’s scared of the kids here. She’s scared of the kids bringing their family here and attacking them. Things of that nature.”<\/p>\n
White-Brown was arrested on scene and charged with aggravated assault and simple assault. He posted $5,000 bail and is awaiting his preliminary hearing on July 2, according to court documents.<\/p>\n
The incident was addressed quickly, and there was no ongoing threat to students, staff, or the school community, according to school officials.<\/p>\n
“Nothing’s changed. Something has to change though,” said New. “I don’t know when change is going to happen, but it needs to be now.”<\/p>\n
Out of respect for the school leader\u2019s privacy, ASD says it is unable to provide additional information regarding the person’s condition, but notes that person is receiving appropriate care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. – An altercation between students at an Allentown middle school led to a man allegedly assaulting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,1646,11228,760,206,70603,10011,93803],"class_list":["post-214353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-arrest","tag-assault","tag-middle-school","tag-police","tag-school-principal","tag-school-safety","tag-student-altercation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}